-el .rr o, ee sa. °. - - bby, esthe dbnd orSnuber 40 timpe the o kitcha'.: ha b be u u 18,26*aim 4 f moes a.r Dixn his builtI'i,268." But are family recordst lwsaeto fbe depended- ontWorild's Largest Bean Field.SThe present' average yield of lima..beams in 'Southern California is 224000",6000 wpounds, which isy about three-"fourths of the total production of theworld. One ranch In the bean countrycovers 1,500 acres. This is the largest bean field in the world, and it requires forty tons of seed beaus toplant it.Her Position.A young lady applicant for a schoolout west, says a St. Louis humorist,was asked the question: "What isyour position upon whipping children?" and her reply was: "My usualposition is n a chair, with the childheld firpnly across my knees, facedownward." She got the school.Chancellor Opposes Football.Chancellor Day of Syracuse university gives notice that unless the present dangers to life and limb are reformed out of football his conscience'will force him to declare war upon thegame and to ask the executive boardto restrain the young Syracusans fromengaging in it.A Kansas Editor Ruminates.It is said that when a hungry In.dian goes hunting he kills the firstthing he sees, if it is only a crow.Il he kills a duck he drops the crowand it he gets a deer he throws awaythe duck. Some girls are regular Indians, aren't they?-Lane New Leaf.Modeled on Y. M. C. A.The success of the Young Men'sChristian association in Japan hascalled into existence a young men'sBuddhist association, modeled on thesame lines and aiming to inspire notonly religious but patriotic sentimentin the minds of its members.Buy Tennessee Timber Lands.Mayor David S. Rose of Milwaukeeis one of a party of northwestern capitalists who have just bought 30.000acres of timber land in Tennessee, estimated to contain 1,000,000,000 feetof good pine lumber.Remarkable Coincidence.Queen Victoria was baptized, marrled and crowned by Archbishop Howley. It is remarkable that George III.was also baptized, married andcrowned by one man-ArchbishopMecker.Sheep .Sell Cihcap.A Sydney firm of meat preservershave purchased 12,000 sheep fromfrom twelve to twenty-five cents each,the owners being unable to maintainthem owing to the absence of fodder.The "Mitchell" Carnation.-.An Indianapolis florist has named acarnation after John Mitchell. leaderof the miners. The flower is purewhite and is said to have other distinctive qualities.Made Things Even."You have accepted Georgei hy.,you know very well that I don't approve of him." "That's all right,mamma. Neither does he approve ofyou."--Life.Vanderbiit as Janta Claus.W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., will give eachof the public sdhools of Little Neck,L. t., a fine Christmas tree, and willact as Santa Claus at one celebration.Steel and Iron.A quarter-inch bar of steel did notbreak till 8,332 pounds were put uporit; but a bar of iron of the same diameter bore 4,504 pounds only.Water Supply of Grat Cities.Rome has a water supply of h00million gallons a day. Lotdon' only160 millions and Paris ninety mll~ions.Winchester Once Englband's Capital.In 827 Winchester and not Londonwas proclaimed to be the capital ofgland, rand so it remained for two.aderb wirilesofteli pb's statstle Wogntr tl to bea fas. .S Clau aitoie marbleStee and'~i· Iron,·A uatr-nh'br f teldd o4.· -oen. * .. "BnglIuwlsas s r a'h!' =-t ,·do {oeu eeal: a.,etaisr 1asionally?" The general epl InIcbir'eteristie silky tone: "Oh; I don'tmind it "much more- than y0s 'o, I.are say."'.."'can you te.a. me -ajig'aboutMr. Blank, Mr tli · 1arClgak" askeda visitor of a resident in Tidewater,Va. "I 'metn, of 'ourse, about his-standing and financial responsibtlity.""'Mr. Blank,-.suh, is a perfect gentleman, subh, a perfect gentleman, sub,"and here he paused, til he gentlywhispered, "but short ot.ae~s " "Antipodean Pearl Fishing.The pearl fisheries of West -Australia employ 2,505 men, of whom 110 areEnglishmen. The average yield perboat per season is placed at $625 forpearls and $3,375 for pearl shell. Atlast year's prices the average revenueper boat was $4,200, the average expenditure $2,600, making the averageLet profit $1.600.Will Give Official Interview.In order to get rid of the swarmsof reporters and kodak fiends whodaily beset him Pierpont Morgan hasdecided to receive one newspaper manevery afternoon and give him anynews that is to be given out, underpledge that the recipient shall sharehis information with the others.Doctors Make Mistakes.Repeated mistakes of diagnosiswere made by doctors during therecent outbreak of bubonic plague,the disease being often described asinfluenza, enteric fever and malaria,states a local government board report, according to the London DailyMail.New Idea in Russia.It is reported that the Russian minister of the interior is considering aproject for nationalizing the medicalprofession, so that all doctors andchemists would be state officials. Acommission has been appointed tocollect information on the subject.Judge's Busy Day.Judge Shay, presiding in the criminal court at Pottsville, Pa., is one daylast week tried forty-seven personsand sent every one of them to jail,that being the biggest day's workever done by one judge in Pennsylvania.House a Gigantic Scrapbook.From garret to easement in the largehouse of a Leeds (England) mineralx ater manufacturer is a giganticscrapbook, every notable theatricalposter of the last twenty years beingpasted on the walls.The Gulf Stream.The gulf stream is 200 fathomsdeep off Cape Fliorida. Near CapeHatteras the depth is only half asgreat, the stream appearing to haverun uphill, with an ascent of 10 inches to the mile.Honduras Has No Market.Honduras, since 1900, has had nomarket for her cattle. In the past shehas depended on Guatemala, but financial conditions in that republic haveclosed the market.Cost F-lls on Venice.As the Italian government declinesto contribute, the whole cost of reconstructing the fallen campanile of St.Mark's will be borne by the Venicemunicipality.The First Ice Cream.The first ice cream ever sold as aregul..r article of commerce wasshipped by a Boston merchant namedTudor, in 1805. He sent a load toMartinique.Figures that Stagger.The solar system is travellingtowards the constellation Hercules atfully 20,000 miles an hour. It willtake 'L million years to get there.Swim With Eyes Above Water.Garfish, suiunflsh; basking shark andSdolphins all have the habit of swimming with their eyes above the surface of the water.Church Buried by Sand.Zuydcote, near Dunkirk, was overwhelmed by sand in 1777. Only thechurch steeple can now be seen.Smallest Flowering Plant.The smallest fidwering plant is akind of Indian duckweed known as, Wolflia microscoplcs. Each plant hastwo flowers.Two Qaya From Land.* Durig a voyage from 'Manila Iar Australia, the ship Is out of sight oland toy two d~as onf . .cent campaign Ita 6oati~'wasuia . Lady.smith: -tftat place. .hndtor Rosewaterws VwtrtotS.e . 'The journallgtic merngLea 'hohire' themseloves out p.itioll toaesoibber pothose poiii ians dtattooed candidates tad pour nveU:.omed aldte .upon the hedas .of en , oistanding and eharAder will: bave an.other respite frdm their eforts to befog and mlead gullible voters of thiscity.--Omaha Bee.Record to be Proud Of.Prof. Zephanish Hopper, has -beenteaching mathematics in the centralhigh school of Philadelphia for forty-.seight years, in some instances h tothree generations of the same family.He is seventy-eight years old, and isnot believed to have missed a session of his class in the last two decades,Inventor of the "Higli Bal."'Twas a civil engineer, not a bartender, who drew the plans for andconstructed the first "high ball," viz.,2dward Everett Walker, an American, who is now building a railroad inSweden. It is to be hoped that histracks do not have as many reversecurves as his drinks.Tribute to Newspapers.Roland B. Mollineux pays a mourn.ful tribute to the efficacy of newspaper advertising. "So many pictures ofme have been printed," he says, "thatI can't get into a street car or be subjected to the gaze of a street crowdfor five minutes without being recognized."An Ancient Bank Note.The latest curiosity at the Britishmuseum is a Chinese bank note of thefourteenth century, which was discovered in the ruins of a statue of Buddha at °ekin. It is worth noting thatpaper money was not introduced intoEurope till the seventeenth century.Culture in Gotham.William C. Whitney ventures hisreputation for truthfulness and cdmmon sense on the statement that "thehorse show has come to be the greatest feature of New York life." Whichthe same appears to be just a triflerough on average New York life.New York Tenement Houses.The law in New York allowstenement houses a height of eightyfive feet-seven stories and a basement-when the two first floors arefreproof, and 150 feet-twelve stories-when fireproof throughoutEnglish Coal Fields.The eastern division of the SouthWales coal fields will probably becompletely exhausted in forty-twoyears. The Denbighshire and Flintshire fields may last two and a halfcenturies.Liquor in Russia.The spirits monopoly has been extended throughout the greater part ofCentral Asia and the Northern Caucasus. All efforts to introduce localoption in European Russia have failed.Wholesale Bird Destruction.The precise number of birds estimated by the British consul in Venezuela to have been killed last yearto provide aigrettes for ladies' hatswas 1,538,738.England's Forests.The New forest in Hampshire is thelargest English forest, containing 600.000 -acres. The Foresit of Dean was22,500 acres and Windsor forest14,000.Castles on the Rhine.From the mouth to the source ofthe Rhine 226 castles, formerly thehomes of warlike chiefs, are to befound overlooking its waters.Fastidiousness of the Pig.Of 575 plants, a goat was found toeat 449 and refuse 126. A pig, on theother hand. would only eat 72 out of243 offered to it. ,England's Oldest Port.Falmouth is probably the oldestport in England. It was used by thePhoenicians at leaft 2,600 years ago.Chinese Girls at Telephones.Chinese girls are being employed iaSan -Francisco as telephone operatorsfor the accommodation of Chinesemerchants,Freich or PetOuegee.SOne in every 200 of the populationSof India belongs either to the eeaehor P.iFor£. " e :eoio 5.-- ..,- -"- ' t .that " hetth :t1e-l.• Stuartbaa .decidedK pfte' `aFte b.monu` the amount desired for.the purpose.den `thugh Lee -i president of theShort on Tbhaogy.,In the trial of bible case in TopeAa the attorneys ha :ocession to read:ate LaSd'a pra).y . .T , ex rset for a.Bible. `Then they sent for a preacher-to tell them in what- part of the gos'els to ind the prayer., A Bostonlawyer would have'known enough,. tohave-called a minltser to the stand inthe first placo.J. Pierp's Finish.Wouldn't it be too bad If, after allthese big schemes he has worked out'so suecessfully, Mr. Morgan should.stick fast in a London tube? It -hasoften been said that every man, hashis limitations. Perhaps J. Pierp'sfinish is at the small end of a holeunderground. Who knows?-Los Angeles Times.A Jewel of a Servant.When the hired girl who set theplates for a little dinner in Lawren ",Kan., read in the local papers that"covers were laid" for fifteen guests,she entered an indignant denial, saying that only two of the whole partygot so bad that they had to go tobed. That servant is a jewel.Would Please Napoleon.Napoleon, if he were alive, would begratified to learn that the populationof France, which decreased 25,98S in1900, increased 72,398 in 1901, and allthe more so because the increase lasti year was cue more to an increase inthe number of births than to a lowering of the death rate.Owes Position to Accident.Alard Sheck, military attache of theGerman embassy in Washington, issaid to owe his appointment to hisclose resemblance to President Roosevelt, the German emperor himself havying remarked this and suggested thebrilliant young officer for the billet.Discovered Gigantic Glacier.Rev. James Outram, a noted Scottish mountain climber, who has beere visiting unexplored districts of theRocky mountains in British Columbia,says he discovered on Mount Columbla a gigantic glacier covering 20csquare miles.Painter a Confirmed Bachelor.s John S. Sargent, the American portrait painter, who is coming to thiscountry to do a picture of Presidente Roosevelt, is so much of a bachelora that he bars the opposite sex even inthe matter of domestic science.Cullom's Early Ambition.h It was the ambition of Shelby M.e Cullom's early youth to become a drySgoods clerk and perhaps eventually to- own a store. He sought a clerkshipi but failed to get it, and then went infor the study of law.Left Too Suddenly.Mrs. Jones-Do your cooks stay withf you long? Mrs. Brown-Well, no. I- tried to get a snap-shot at the last oneI with my camera, but she was too. quick for the instrument.-Judge.Brandy For Statesmen.S It Is a custom in the Belgian par- liIament, when a member is making ar long speech, to be supplied witha brandy as a beverage, at the expenseof the government.Or Even Got Along.a When the time comes for a man topay a debt, he' begins to see manys ways in which he could have gottent along without contracting it.-Atchison Globe.The Speech of Monkeys.i After fourteen years' study of thea monkey race, Prof. Garner has comea to the conclusion that their vocabulary is not large enough to hurt.Finest Rock Crystal Ball.SThe finest rock crystal ball in thea world is in the Boston Fine Artsf museum. It measures seven and afourth inches in diameter.Mersey Ahead of the Thames,t The exports from the Mersey exa coed the value of those shipped fromSthe Thames by nearly $150,000,000.England Well Watered.Including rivers and canals, it ise stimted -that ao part of Englasnd isSmore than .fifteen miles from water- commaestaon.s. Oune, genation mlksI money, theh , t br.i. lt:, ad, the a, e lives bybet, 'apat, sa i +t'. i " 'ie f:oir:two 4ndi idualas dtJ a ?V con-o Cversation through te*li 4uta as isadilya ad w s ifthe. ine had been. pr est f 'IePerfume and Drunlenneap.:A storekeeper; named Gert S"m7y.man of Harrismith, South Africa, has Ibeen fined $50 and costs for elling toa native a bottle of perfume, contain-'.iar more- than 60t pet ce-t pure Ispirits. - The evideap showed that 4the native, drank the perfume; .:and Iwas discovered shortly afterwardhopelessly Itoxicated lying in the Igutter.To Strong to Resist. ""Now won't you let rie call you daytling and let me feel the .loving tendrilsof your rosy lips to. mime, while thestars of twilight shine?" writes an ardent lover down in Texas, who neverdreamed that his letter would get intoprint. But what girl with a spark ofromance in her soul could resist sucha poetical appeal?Homeopathy In Germany.The Wurzburg university of Baria is about to establish a chair -fhomeopathy, the first in Germany. Thechoice of Wurzburg is remarKable, asit is from this university that thestrongest opponents of homeopathyave come. The Bavarian govern.nert has promised the necessaryfunds.Genuine "Flying Wedge."Who has not seen the V-shapedflocks of geese go honking along over:lead? They fly in V-shape becausehe arrangement permits each bird toollow with the least resistance. When.he goose in the lead becomes fatigued.ie takes his place in the rear, each>ird in its turn leading the flock.Telling Wind-Up.After wheezing along focr fortyninutes the other night an orator in3rooklyn, N. Y. made this telling flnsh to his address: "And now, ladiesand gentlemen. I thank you heartily_or the kindness you have shown meand hope we may meet on some pre, ious occasicn."Professors to Be Retired.Beginning with June next year Correll university is to relieve all its professors who reach the age of seventyluring any calendar year. The reired professors will serve as special:ecturers in their respective departnents at a salary of $1,500 a year.Women Like the Automobile.A dealer in motor cars states thatadies invariably take kindly to this:ode of traveling alter a single trial,Znd that even women whose nerves.ave made them failures as cyclists,:t once begin to enjoy the new pasime.Smallpox Statistics.Port Said has 35,000 natives and_2,000 Europeans; yet while only 18natives died of smallpox in 1900, therevere 38 deaths among the whites.Jaccination is strictly enforced by.aw on the natives.Atmospheric Pressure.The atmospheric pressure upon thesurface of an ordinary man is 32.400)ounds. The ordinary rise and fall of.he barometer increases or decreases.his pressure by about a ton and aiuarter.Resembles the Magpie.The vizcacha of the South American pampas has exactly the same.rick of collecting bright objects that-e know so well in the magpie. Thevlzcacha is a badger-like animal.Danner in Tricks.A trick is like a cheap firecrackerwhen it seems to have done its worklnd lost its vitality it is apt to explodeand hurt the man who set it off.-Saturday Evening Post.Inman Liner Broken Up.The once famous Inman liner Cityof Rome has been sold to the shipbreakers for a trifle over £17,000.She was built in 1881 at a cost of over£300,000.Dreasses of Paper.Dresses made of paper are worn Insome parts of Japan, costing so littlethat when they get torn their ownerdoes not bother about mending them.Stumped the Professor.A Brown university student oncehad the audacity to ask Prof. Caswellwhether his name would not be aswell without the C.Pretty Near Perpetual Motion.Herr Noll of Berlengen, in Germany, has made a clock warranted togo 9,000 years without winding.Much Leather Worn Out.It is calculated that every day nearI ly 2.500 pounds of shoe leather isworn from the soles of London's footpassengers.Vaoinaltion for Distempe'r.Vacclpation against distemper is tobe trled tsa the cWase of a ·it ofboPras to 9Northe t*IMIt·6-t $·· :·· ··~~r ;I'4days' 'caLl fllg time l tyears. Obd bni ope ' you %good t' d , e rRefo ti in taHn Priso.ie-in accordance 1ytl the f law tor U';abolition of chainiu Italiattnpwhich came 1t1 ethina have been -ts koft = ,.-I ,.prisoners in thi *aceremony is caid t epante- by most" -oP;prisoners sobbinghappiness at the reiy fo tb . i:burden.s poiled Pc tPostal cards which I :t-beaspoiled and not sent thrltl "hP# 'if- entire are now rddeeaet&Ild;offices under the slidingsoale -ftions by which the post rsn.I ,pay 7 cents for 10 eards, 18 .25 cards, 37 cents for 50 curid I:cents for 100 cards. Thhecairds ari'.Ito be wrapped In bundles of 35.Was the Chief Entertain er.wtelling A oe 4.a t ilitical mass meeting last niht' tat . i" ;grandfather died very suddenlytt,' 1platform at a great public agtawedi he i"Did he have the nerve rto tell' .ithat?" "Yes; wasn't it true?" -o ":es; executions, I believe, were p"bl :in those days when his grdfathe`;died."Right of the Soldier.When the nation was burying th :body of Mr. Lincolni at Springi 'fiecitizen touched a soldier anC sal;"Sir, you are standing in front of D9The soldier replied, "I have been for._four years." This gave the soldienthe right to stand anywhere.-North.western Christian Advocate.Overworked His "Best Marn."It is generally supposed that theservices of a best man at a wedding'end with the close of the ceremong:and the departure of the happy pjlr,but it seems not. Bridegroom of twomonths has just utilized his best amaian;again, this time to serve divorce pa.;pr n epers on the bride. o haaMarried at Advanced Age.Prof. T. J. Ellingwood, 73 yearoldprivate secretary to the late I1Ward Beecher for twenty-Avewas married at Worcester rMrs. Elizabeth 8:'JenningsHenry C. Jennings of tra friendship of many yearsCultivation of Tea.cMore than 524,000 acres of 'the Indian possessions of Greaain are devoted to the cultivation,tea, nine-tenths of the area being.Assam and Bengal. Production Is.oSificially estimated at 191,250,000pounds.SWhere. Mosquitoes -Breed.Ricefields are such great br e -places of mosquitoes that theI$eiangovernment passed a law as long`as. 1866 regulating the ' edisance tdwellings at which the 'cultlvatiorice is permissible.Successful Hunting Tr"So you had a successful hotrip?" "Eminently successful.didn't bring back any game, butbody was shot by any of the othemembers of the party."-Washingtod aStar.Just Punishment.Fred Smith, a St. Louis coal dealer,who delivered a short-weight load ofcoal to a patron, has been fined $500in the police court of that city, themaximum penalty prescribed by. law,German Inspection of Meat.On April 1, 1903, Germhany's newmeat Inspection law goes into effect,necessitating the erectloqi of manynew buildings foh use ae. In ctloustatldns, etc. ,. , ',."Poor Year for Champagne.This year must be marked with ablack stone in the calendar of champagne lovers, for 1902 will be one ofthe very worst champagne years o0record.Most Murderou ~Z.The battle of Tours, I'A D.is said to have been the moi murdeous on record. Three hunded andfifty thousand men in all were killed.All Colors.A man feels blue with trouble, red:'with rage, white with fear, yellow 'iwith envy and green with je~Baltimore American,.Average of RalhtThe average amount tfalls south of the equinches; north it is abIndictment oJudge hofforsithe men who 30 to:from his court go.use of whlsky."